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podman-pod-start(1) General Commands Manual podman-pod-start(1)

podman-pod-start - Start one or more pods

podman pod start [options] pod ...

Start containers in one or more pods. You may use pod IDs or names as input. The pod must have a container attached to be started.

--all, -a

Starts all pods

--latest, -l

Instead of providing the pod name or ID, start the last created pod. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

--pod-id-file=file

Read pod ID from the specified file and start the pod. Can be specified multiple times.

Start pod with a given name

podman pod start mywebserverpod

Start pods with given IDs

podman pod start 860a4b23 5421ab4

Start the latest pod created by Podman

podman pod start --latest

Start all pods

podman pod start --all

Start pod using ID specified in a given file

podman pod start --pod-id-file /path/to/id/file

podman(1), podman-pod(1), podman-pod-stop(1)

July 2018, Adapted from podman start man page by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩